Chapter 4565 — There's Something Ahead
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"Stop—there seems to be something ahead!" the ghost thing suddenly spoke up.
"Really?!" Wei Zhao was startled and hastily brought the spirit bird to a halt, his heart caught between unease and excitement. After more than two days of dull, dead silence, that initial fear had long since been replaced by anticipation; now he was practically itching to run into something.
"Of course it's real. But it's too far off right now—even with my divine sense I can only vaguely perceive that something exists, and I can say for certain it's alive. I just can't tell yet whether it's a spirit beast or a human cultivator," the ghost thing said after a moment's thought.
"What? How could there be a human cultivator in a place like this?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. Deep down he had assumed that whatever existed here had to be a spirit beast—something like the flood dragon mentioned earlier. How would a human cultivator turn up here out of nowhere...
"Tch! What grounds does a brat like you have to say that? Aren't you yourself a living, breathing human cultivator?" The ghost thing snorted, curling its lip. "Sure, I said freaks like you with all five elemental attributes are hard to find anywhere under heaven, but there's always a bigger fish. One or two of them turning up is nothing strange."
"Fine, it's not impossible, I suppose. Then Senior, please probe carefully right now—is it a spirit beast or a human cultivator?" Wei Zhao could only swallow his pride and smile bitterly.
"Simple enough. Have the spirit bird move a little further forward, but not too close—ideally close enough that I can probe it while it can't probe me." The ghost thing gave its instructions. It was utterly confident in its own divine sense; even if the other party really was some flood dragon, it could not possibly sense farther than he could. So long as the distance was properly controlled, this would be no difficult feat.
"All right." Wei Zhao at once urged the spirit bird onward, though this time he slowed it greatly, inching forward almost bit by bit. Any more than that and the other side might notice.
This went on for a while, and Wei Zhao and the spirit bird—who had not been all that nervous to begin with—found themselves scared stiff by the eerie atmosphere, their hair standing on end. Man and beast alike: it is the unknown that terrifies most. Had a flood dragon been plainly visible ahead, they would not have been half so tense.
A moment later, the ghost thing, for some reason, suddenly gave a soft "Hm?" of surprise. Wei Zhao's nerves snapped taut and he hurriedly asked, "What is it?"
"Now this is truly strange—why does this aura feel a little familiar?" the ghost thing muttered in some amazement.
"Familiar? Could it really be that flood dragon, then?" Wei Zhao guessed. As he saw it, the only thing whose aura the ghost thing would find familiar was likely a kinsman of its own kind, a flood dragon. He had thought those so-called sightings were just the five-element killing qi misread by others—who would have guessed the matter was real after all.
"Not clear." The ghost thing paused a moment. "This feeling shouldn't be as simple as a kinsman. But I can confirm the one opposite us is indeed of dragonkind—whether it's a flood dragon specifically, that I can't say."
"How can that be? With your divine sense, Senior, you should be able to see it clearly, no?" Wei Zhao asked, puzzled. In theory, what divine sense perceived was far sharper than the ordinary five senses; that other things could not be made out was normal enough, but whether the other party was a flood dragon ought to be obvious at a glance.